Citizenship in Britain #
March 13th, 2008 | In Worth Reading
Timothy Garton Ash wrote a pretty interesting Op-Ed in this morning’s LA Times. Though ostensibly about Britishness, he’s also got an important point that’s relevant here:
The more diverse your society becomes, the more important it is to spell out what you all have in common. In any nation defined by civic rather than ethnic belonging, citizenship is the key term, and in Britain, unlike in France or the United States, our explicit notions of citizenship are underdeveloped.